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v HUFF'S HOT SHOT. *A Strong Speech Against the j Sale of the State Road. ■BROWN HANDLED WITH GLOVES OFF There was another lively scene in the house, yesterday. ' “Mr. Speaker, when the house adjourned 4>n Saturday I was reviewing the letter o£ Pres ident Joseph E. Brown of July 8, addressed to the governor of Georgia. In that letter, Mr. Speaker, he says: ‘Having read your message With care,’ and then goes on to enumerate the improvements put on tlse road by the lessees, and to state that ‘all these improvements cost a large sum of money.’ He does not claim ANYTHING FOR BETTERMENTS, ■frat the letter is an invitation for an adjust ment of betterments. ; ‘ lie says that an arrangement could be made with the lessees to ‘keep the railroad in its ,present splendid condition.’ “There is NOTHING AMBIGUOUS ABOUT THAT. “But if the state refuses to do anything, President Brown says that there is no other alternative but ‘to diminish the expenditure of the road, to economize, and try to return it in as nearly the same condition as it was received an.’ “Bear it in mind, I beg von, that President Brown understands the meaning of words, as anyone who heard him before the governor's high court, when he took the act of 1876 and TORE IT INTO DOLL RAOS, for although the act is attributed to Judge XV. M. ltce.se, it was written by Joseph E. Brown, and he knows what he meant! “In his letter to Governor Gordon he says: *Yon and other men of your age will remem ber the wretched condition of the State road when it was turned over to the lessees. The Jpublic record in tiie office of the secretary of (state accurately describes it.’ “Ami lie proposes that the state is to receive St back in that shape! "President Brown says that unless the state agrees with the lessees they will commence early to place it in that order so as to return it in as good condition only as it was received. He did say that lie would not lease it. He did not Bay that he would not purchase it. This letter was an attack to depreciate the value of the yoad. To further strengthen his position he goes on to enumerate the depreciation of tiie road by competition. He had but one object and that to put the property in such a condi tion t hat NO ONE WOULD LEASE IT. “President, Brown proceeds to give' the general assembly some advice by sug gesting that the next lease act be not so unwise as to contain restrictions pre venting its lease by railroad or express compa nies. as the state would have it in its power to protect the lessees, despite the effort of com peting lines to depreciate it. He closes by Haying: Still it is not for mo to say who shall be lessee. But he intimates that the lessees have paid in as rent al §5,100,000. “President Brown, alter waiting two months, Comes in WITH AN AMENDMENT indicated what he intended to do. This amendment is in tiie shape of a letter address ed to the world. There is no use for us to ad vertise this property. President Brown has saved us this expense. The publicat ion of his lettemin The Constitution, with its wide spread circulation, covering all the points named in the majority report, give ample., no tice. President Brown says that ho has been fluiet since, his letter to Governor Gordon in July, and has had nothing to say on better ments. ( “He says that the press and the general as sembly have had something to say about bet terments. This house has been VERY QUIET ON THE MATTER. President Brown states that the idea advanced that steel rails are a fixture and that the lessees Cannot remove them is erroneous. The term Mixtures,’ he says, does not apply. ’ “The road is to be retained in as good condi tion merely as received in, with one hundred and thirty-eight miles of iron rails, T pattern reduced in weight. The state cannot require steel rail. No particular rail is a fixture. Tiie State is not entitled to more rollingstock than turned over to the lessees. lam making no Claim for betterments, while in equity, the Jessees have a strong claim. If the state does Mot agree, the lessees will not return the road with betterments, but will return the road in the wretched condition it was in when re ceived. “Is tiie question of betterments disposed Os? , “Heavy, heavy, WHAT HANGS OVER YOU. "Under these depreciatory letters no respect able railroad syndicate will make a decent bid for the property. Tiie first letter was an in vitation to the state to make, bids. The state made no bids the general assembly is informed that the road will be put in a “wretch ed condition” unless it docs something. “My position on this question is CLEAR, CLEAN-CUT AND DECIDED, and that is to protect the road from being Wrecked, and to declare that the state will not pay for betterments. “Shall we sit here quietly and let President Brown WRECK IT WORLD WITHOUT END .while we do nothing ? Let us put a man there to watch it night and day. The world is full <p£ railroad men who could bo obtained. Let as tell President Brow’n in unmistakable terms, Slot one dollar for betterments. “Governor Brown knows, as every lawyer knows, that now is not the proper time to talk about betterments. Let him work out his con tract. At the expiration of the lease it may lie considered—not now. The steel rails—put down five years ago—at the end of the lease will be worthless, and President Brown knows that lie could not get one dollar for them, IT IS TOO SIMPLE TO TALK ABOUT. “The Athens Banner-Watchman says: ‘lt is contrary to the simplest principle of business to offer property for sale or lease over which there is a contest or litigation.’ . “Suppose a man comes to negotiate for the road with Governor Gordon. The next man he sees about it will he President Brown. Presi dent Brown will tell him that he means to WRECK THE STATE ROAD, for the ‘wretched condition’he refers to, means that- -nothing more, nothing less. I “J admire Dr. Felton’s noble advocacy of the school fund. Some say that the school fund is a fraud. Education founded on taxes flerh ed from whisky and guano smells strong ly of fraud. < “I indulge in no fancy estimate of the value of the State road. It. bears interest on §7,500,- jXX), and is worth that sum. The shite can float all her bonds at 4 percent. Mr. Wolff e kays that lie will take them at that, world witho it end, and lie is only a fly on the bull's horn! “Whose fault is it that the state (s paying §579,000 interest Every dollar of it con'd' be retired The .report of tiie sub-committee of which Mr. ’Watts is chairman, is the most important (the ,<>on\ i< t lease not excepted) ever made to the general assembly. It gives us full iuloi mation. “Vc can see §1,500,000 of surplus property be longing to the State road ami the old < apitoi building. Suppose we only realize kl .000.000. That leaees 57,500,0<X>, and the rental .<4 the .plate road will pay that. But we retire an anally Slot),000 bonds and §5,000 interest. The property of Georgia is increasing in value The State road is the most magniiieeut col lateral in the south. "I am talking business facts. It is fe, nd the state might get rosst ssioN of the state road. "I would lie only too glad were it -o. It might get into politics. Get W. <>. ii.ioi,! or Major J. XV. Grom:, or Cecil Gabb it in Charge. Y>ti couldn't get an ounce of politics into them with a t orkscrew. Grc.t ii«<l, I would be rejoiced to w Georgia get 1 ol it &m! shake, it as worth -'7,500,000! [ pphot'-■ “ I iic gentleman fr in IL ugiicrt. -"id that JPlTsolei.l Brown had but to toot his I. • and Jt would Im 'rats, to your holes.’ 1 want to put Broun in bi- hole, just for one time. [Ap plau-e.] Don't let us hear anymore <4 the - Bertion that Bv.wi is the only man it. ' ■■■■ r_i:< with Mensa enough lor in a cont iet camp or a railroad. He an I h's coadjutors are on the in aide. as lie w.i .oi. t) o convict lease m:.tier,and waul t» buy tiie s'stc r.nd for nothing. “Mr. Ali’.hchn is e, ' to the ' <f the State toad. Mr. llarri.on, of Q-iituiaii, Aajs that Major A. <). Bacon, who <’•“■< : the resolution, is opp ,-cd to the sale ol the toad. WHY MONKEY WITH THE BUZZ SAW alien? It cost si,4'o to advertise for f . the new capitol. It will cost 'JO to advertise bids for sale or lease. We have tho information now. “If President Brown is as bad as he is repre sented to be, (he is as smart as lightning,) I want the legislature to shako him out of the road. The attorney-general has given it as his opinion that Georgia lias not tiie shadow of a bond for the State road. XVould any otiier man be allowed to hold the road otto moment without a bond ! Foor old measly Georgia al ’ lows him to hold it without a bond! XVe I should make him give n good bond, or say: ‘President Broun, retire!’ WE OLD, GRAY HEADED SINNERS may suffer this, because our records are behind us; but yon young men, ambitious of distinc tion, should say: ‘Touch not, taste not, handle not, this unclean thing!’ and protectthe rights and property of the people.” [Applause.] “The act of 1876 provided that the expenses should never exceed $4,500 pcranuum, and yet they have gone up to §9,000. XVo have got clean away from the act of 1876. Tho ex penses were to be for the penitentiary, and not for camps. “President Brown did not approve tho act of 1881. That act provided that at the expira tion of their terms of service, convicts should be provided witli a suit of clothes and money to pay transportation home. XVhen I asked President Brown if there had ever been ad verse legislation to the lessees, he replied, in terms as COLD AS AN ICICLE, that there had. in tiie passage of the act of 1881. and to that extent had robbed him. "Ves, these convicts that had worked for Brown and Seaver at 3} cents per day, at that ' hell hole in Dade comity, were to be turned out naked and friendless from the mines! “W. B. Lowe, as wild, wickodjuul wayward a man of tiie world as 1 am, who does not go to tiie sanctuary with an it ito cravat on, pro posed this humanitarian measure, which Pres ident Brown says robbed him. The idea of GEORGIA EVER ROBBING JOB BROWN in any way or,under any circumstances, isnot I to be entertained. Has lie not had Georgia’s property in his hands, the State road ami her convicts? It makes me think of sweat boxes in Columbus, of shipping cotton from Wil mington, and collards from Milledgeville! “The act of 1881 is a Pandora’s.box. Grand juries are authorized to monkey around WITH CHEAP RELIGION and appoint chaplains for these camps. These migratory chaplains have cost §l,lOO, and yet there are camps in which no sermons have been preached for three months. “The trouble in the act of 1881 is hi the ap pointment of the whipping bosses. The lessees appoint them in writing, fiibject to the written proval of the governor. They are paid and controlled by tiie lessees, but in order to re lieve themselves of liability the lessees say: ‘How dare you forfeit my lease when the cou j victs are whipped by your own. office?’ “The committee of which I was chairman | had no money, and wo paid our own expenses. I Tiie railroad passes were withdrawn, and wc had difficulties to contend with. We had to abandon the inspection of camps and convicts. Wc placed our investigation on a higher plane than the disclosures from convicts. Wo ob tained our testimony from the lessees and the men they employed, ami 1 have got “W. B. Lowe and J . E. Brown are my warm personal friends. I have no favors to ask, no friends to serve, no enemies to punish, no new field. You could not gel me to touch a convict, with a forty-foot pole, sweetened with mo- I lasses. HONEY-COMBED AND SUGAR-COATED. , I denounce here as illegal, and as an infamous swindle from Ato Z. There’s money in it; if there was not, they would abandon it like ticks from a dead cow. There’s millions in it, and they are getting it. “When John W. Nelms countermanded the order of W. I). Grant, compelling his convicts to make a march on Sunday, Grant, attacked him about it, and Nelms was compelled to leave his office. Grant lives in a palatial man sion on Peachtree street. Let us'eonsider this sweet lease contract. Governor Smith, in his order, recites: ‘Whereas, in the opinion of the governor, none of said bids should be accept ed.’ Beinember, the bids were made three years in advance of the. expiration of the lease of 1874, and by tho lessess only, who were the only ones knowing the value of con vict labor, “Mr. XV. B. Lowe thought that Governor Brown and Colonel Tom Alexander would not hang around unless there WAS SUGAR IN THE GOURD, and he camo in and raised the bids. “Just here lam in receipt of intelligence' that the state treasurer has paid a bill of §72 for the investigation of a convict camp by a grand jury in Dade county. This is the way your money troes. It is a damnable swindle, conceived and perpetuated in fraud, and is ROBBERY BY THE WHOLESALE. “Governor Gordon could now lease out the convicts for §64,000 instead of §‘.,’5,000. If tho lessees have not violated the act, lot any mem | her on this floor get up and assert it, anil I will sit down. I pause for a reply. They worked the convicts on the Sabbath day. it is true. Governor McDaniel consented to this, but it was nevertheless a violation of tho act. The question is. how much violation do you insist on before forfeiting the lease? “One of the Jessees is styled THE VIOL’S BONDURANT of Augusta, and wear.-, a necktie as immaculate as Bishop Elliott. Ifwgavc theconvictsmedi cine out of the same Ifottle. Head the testi mony of Colonel Towers, who visited the Au gusta camp incog, and saw the medicine dealt out for two hours. He describes tiie dinner as ‘slush.’ “Governor Smith said to B. G. Lockett that the lease contract was a ‘damnable outrage on the people of Georgia,’ ami to another lessee, ‘you know that tiie bid made is no bid for the convicts. It is aswindle on tiie state.’ “You want the proof. I’ve got it. We ex pend §9,600 to collect §I6,(XXL Suppose Joe Brown was eliminated from the contract, could another contract be made for Jy cents per day? SOME FIGURES. “Here is a paper that costs me §25. It is wortli it. The state of Arkansas leases out 812 convicts at six years for §39,420 per annum, net. “Alabama leases out 572 convicts for §25,300 net per annum. “Tennessee leases out 1.300 coin lets for §96,- 000. clear money per annum. “There is a gentleman on the floor that pays §4O per capita for men, w omen and children. Fulton and Bibb counties, and Stephens’ pot teries pay from §4O to §s(l. “I do not deal in maudlin sentimentality, but in COLD DOLLARS AND CENTS. lam shedding no tears over convicts; I know wiiat work is. I worked in tiie cornfield, by tiie sub of tin? negro, until I was twenty-one. lam as nervous as a cat My contempt for » lazy man is only exceeded by my commisera tion for a man with nothing to do. President Brown admits that tho placing of wardens at tiie camps is right. Should Georgia fail to act, she acts <<IWAI<DLV AND INHUMANELY. I “But it is said that the le-scesare pecuniarly i interested in the welfare of the convict. The judicial circuits arc grinding out convicts, and I the le-sees now have as many as'they can manage. They get them in spite of them selves. The iesices are not as often at the camp' as the state officers. President Brown says it is two and sometimes four months be tween bis visits to Dade coal mines. There were 157 cases of sickmos at tho Augusta 1 camp in June. Dr. Westmoreland j went down and it was rc<lm cd Io fifty-seven in July and thirteen in August. Tin negro whoso ■ leg was sail! to have i><-< u ■ .'.ollcn. had turpen tine put on his feet and told to git. Ho got, ' ami has not been heard from. • ?»l r.Bondurant says that not one third of tiie food sent t<» the <’iimp was given to the con- 1 victs. ‘When tliioves 1,-rcak out convictswill | get tlieir dues.’ [Luiiglitci ] “Bingham whipped ne. roe’ within forty : mil< < of Atlanta. If that is done while the subject is bl ing discr.: e<!. what will bo ih ne after the hgi-laturo m.'minis. Dr. XVest i u.oiehind 'ays the gi< at difficulty is in getting tlu* b ... i<, gin. t.h< convicts fresh meats and" v< :'<•■.:■<>!< He imulo u report to Gnvcii “r McDi iiiel in 1-A3. 1 ailin' l : Governor M* Daniel, but lie snppressid tl .4 repoit. It wa-never seen un til my committ'" bi'might it out. A newspa- . i j,er man offered §SOO for it, and it was re- “> a! !e. <• . have no pernniary interest tn tin i< ■ I at J.ply 1 > anq.ie. L t DIE LIKE DOOS, their pi.v wi.J b, filled with fresh convicts. . “Pr. ideii’ Brown says that the agitation s i doing li 'i tii. that sin h nu n ns Foral.' r.Shcr m:m. et a!., v,ill use it again.t us. Well, if I i 1 ui lx • n in tlu: < i.mpany ol J.mfli mriitei long ■-liolr.is, I would not < .ire a ciis-. what timv , suid 'ixmghtcr.] i j 1 ill, they say,d'-leat t’.e i:c >:i ('...."ocrattc THE WEEKLY CONSTITUTION, ATLANTA, GA, TUESDAY. OCTOBER 11, lbß7. candidate for president. Tho next president hanging on a Georgia chaingang! Great God! if Cleveland hears of it lie wouldn’t come to Atlanta. Ah! it might affect tho cbanco of some French gentleman for United States senator. I hope that all tiie convict lease w ill bo warded off our next senator. I don't be lieve that a United States senator has any right to deal in convicts, so help mo God. [Applause.] “It is against public policy. XVhen I pro posed to lease tiie park in Macon, tiie point was made that as mayor 1 could not lease it. I replied that the man witli the money would get there Eli. [Laughter.] Attorney Gcneral Anderson was my lawyer. But Chief Justice Jackson read tho Yazoo fraud in it. No wonder I’resident Brown feels tender-footed on this subject. I would if 1 were lie. Let him turn it over to the hands of a w icked man like Lowe. Let tlio next United States sena tor be clean, w hite-washed ai d pure.” “Yon propose to gag me. If you do, you will insult not only myself but the people of Geor gia. They w ant to smother it that this rob bery of the people may go on. 1 protest in the name of my people. “Thank God I was sent here bv a people who have never bartered away their political birth-right for a mess of miserable convict pot tage. They aro sick and tired of this thing I known as chaingaug democracy. And if thej I aro to have any more of that sort of govern- . nient forced upon them they want it admin- I istered in hommpathic doses, unmixed witli i State road betterments and nnaduiterati d with any idle promises of reform within tiie ring. Will you gag mo? “In tho name of God, of justice and com mon sense we demand the right to bo heard. Joo Brown, in his speech before the high court, attempted to impose on the people of Georgia. He said to forfeit tiie lease of companies 2 ami 3 would turn 1,200 convicts loose. My bill docs not forfeit a single lease, and Joe Brown and his cliaquers know it. “There are those that assert that there is no hotter managed camp than at Dade coal mines. Yet the convicts died like hogs from scurvy. Joe Brown said that the convicts before the, I war cost §219 per capita per annum. He says ! convicts cost him sixty cents per day per capita. “In Connecticutt 2!K) convicts cost to feed, guard and work3ocents per capita; Illinois, 1,954, 48cents: Indiana, o 0 cents per capita; 10wa,667at44 cents per capita; Maryland, 552 convicts, 33 cents per capita; New Hamp shire. 152. 5 cents; New York, 1,550 at 29 cents, l,osoat33j‘cents, 550 at 41; Ohio, 1.124 at 37 cents; X’irginia, feeding ami guarding, 20:, cents; United States prisoners, 25 cents per capita; convicts at reformatory, 31?. cents. But to como down to convicts in Georgia, Chatham county, 30 cents: Muscogee,36cents; Floyd, 40 cents; Bibb. 39J; liiehmond, 36; Fulton, 36 cents per capita, six counties work ing 336 convicts at 38J cents per capita. "Tiie state lunatic asylum. 1,308 inmates.cost per capita 34}; ten states, with 8,465 convicts, ; 33} per capita. Y'ct Joo Brown says it cost ’ him tJOccnts per capita. Sixty cents on §I,IXIO I will work 1,550 convicts anyjvhero for one year, and cost §2OO. “Any man who says tliat the convicts can not make tlieir food, is either a fool or a knave, and 1 believe of tiie hitter class. Tiie gentleman from Baker, and tho gentleman from Macon, will tell yon so. “Joe Brown boasts of favorable reports by legislative committees to Dado coal mines. Tiie one last session had champagne in one end, whisky in the other, and free cigars all the way. Their hotel bills were paid nt Chat tanooga. Will any one deny it? But that committee could not bo bribed by champagne. They reported tho bunks as filthy; tliat a chaplain was paid §2 per Sunday to ride thir teen miles and preach—“poor pay, poor preach” and it is said lie believed niggers had no soul and ought to go to hell anyhow. President Brown says that ho has seen a revival there. The only revival there was when Kilpatrick witli his sanded strap created a simultaneous, homogenous revival, [laughter.] I wish yon could sco Kilpatrick. He is a daisy, witli his hair down in front like a parrot. The com mittee recommended his removal. Ho is there yet! “These bosses think they are captain of the ranch. If I wantad a butcher to kill hogs I would send for these ducks—these caps. I heard one of tlicm say: ‘l’ve warmed eleven this morning. 1 can have twenty whipped whenever 1 want.’ “This is n national question. Tho message of every governor from Maine to California treats of it. In X r irginia tho convicts are worked on the public roads. I have no pct scheme in view. There is no office in the gift of tiie people I want. It lias no seductive charms for mo, Ho who intimates it is a fool; lie who charges it is a liar. [Applause.] “XVe hear very much in regard to tho sen timent involved in this question. Sentiment is the refinement of public opinion, tiieessence of public policy. It conies to us first in tlie crude shape of public opinion, it: refines itself into public sentiment, and wc all bow down to it. It then takes on tiie higher form of public policy when tiie courts of our coun try adopt it as tiie guiding ruling star of their action. It works without precedent and binds without authority. “Sentiment! Mr. Chairman! XVliy. sir,Hie life we live is but a sentiment, and the deatli we die is not the end of it. It is as endless as the universe and as boundless as eternity! Sentiment! It comes with the cradle, but it goes not out witli the grave. Il is the HEART OF THE I’ULFIT and tiie head of the judiciary. Tho constitu tion under which we live is but a sentiment, and our laws arc but its legitimate offspring. XVe read it in tiie faces of our virtuous wives, and wo kiss it from the lips of our precious children. “Sentiment, Mr. Speaker! Why, sir, it is a sentiment that brings Jefferson Davis to Geor gia. It was a sentiment that made K. E. Leo tiie living and perpetual idol of our southern soldiery mid U. S. Grant the fullest emblem of northern chivalry. It sharpened Lee’s sword at Gettysburg, and it prevented Grant from claiming if at Appomattox. “It thundered from the summit of Sinai ami shrouded tho earth in sorrow at the foot of Calvary! Yes, sir, it gave us a Christ before. Pilate! It kept the precious woman lingering last at the cross, and it sent her first, weeping and watching at the tomb. “Sentiment, Mr. Speaker! I have thought a thousand times that but for the scene and the scntimeiit of tiie hour at Calvary that the ’ Bible would have been a farce ami all religion an imposition. Sir, hanging bleeding and suf fering between two thieves—two convicts, if you please, Mr. Speaker—there, sir, in tiie fiour w lien mortality was passing aw ay and im mortality was coming on; there, sir, BETWEEN TWO POOR MISERABLE CONVU I S the one reviling and scoffing—thoother trust ing ami believing, what do wc hear? 'Lord, remember thou me when thou coiucst to tliy kingdom ‘"SIr.SiM .tk< i . »vn n there any hoard of pardon asked for th* n Was there any sending for the principal keeper of the pr-nitentiary ? No, sir! But therein the very fullncHS of a most I merciful sentiment, tl o Savior of tho world in I the wild delirium of his death, replied to the |M)or convict: ‘This day bhalt thou be with me in paradise!’ “Sfiitiment, Mr. Speaker! Why, sir, it gave us the cross, and it mu.U give m the crown. No scntimcMt, no soul; nu soul, no cross j no cross, no crown!” Mr. H.urison—“The present lease system is the law of Georgia, sustained by the supreme court it i.-> constitutional, valid, and bimling. i ili'a nt from Mr. Huff h.statement of tar is a to the origin of the act ol 1876. Georgia never ; made a contract of 1.600 conGctsfor 516,000. 11 was for i)27 cent icts. You have no constitutional right to take the women and children from the lessees; if they surrender i tliein, as tin v ba’.c the meat, let them keep * tli<‘b ’i,e. Ii t','r< has bei u any f.iiluic to do ' lie.ty, the f.ndt h in Georgia, not th* ' There h:.« been no ea-vC of <b lib<’rate cruelty i j r tvi n. Mr. Harrison commented on the te>- 1 timony, t<» sustain thi j»osit;on. ami closed l»v K-.-oniHionding the improvement of the system by sanitary and humane regulations, and the appointment of state wardens.” Mr. Way Tho 1 •> it is -aid, have vested i right •in tlio labor of cenviet . r rhe decision ' of the supreme court, relied on by the 1 v. j a * *)’( '». between r orpoi ( ;i fl fi not 1 between the state and ba- ever been made that the state • snnot < xer chc her right to look after tho welfare <4 her citizens. On rcrl<« : n grouL'G • i»ot pc •* d tv) ■ she can nullify contract**. The right to excr <: a the poli<r power of the state < annul bo I artered away by entrac t. '1 !;<■ up. erne court decides that the - iate run < hant'e her system, and this bill nropKises to < hange it .o far its the women and chimiim am comcrne«l. Convicts ire ' itlz< i>i ami entitled to protection. G cr- gia is in duty bound to protect thoir safety, health and morals. There is no VESTED RIGHT IX HUMAN BLOOD, bone and muscle, in humanity. It is contrary to tho genius and spirit of our government. The m stem has been tried since l<Sii(.i, and overwhelmingly abused. As long as it exists it will be abused. Mr. Ham—•" There arc three objects in tho punishment of criminals: vindication of the law; reform, if possible : ami mal*o the crimi nal self-supporting. The legislature has noth ing to do with the largo prolits made by tho lessees, Unit if there was profit lot it go to tho taxpayer.” Nir. Hull'— “Mr. Speaker,Thave said nothing that I will take back. I have nothing to ask from the house. When I proposed to leave this (|Ue<tion with the people, I neversawsuch dodging in Georgia. Why not leave it with the people? Smooth-faced young mon, who were in swaddling clothes when this damnable system was inaugurated,‘•o around to defeat this HHI. When I a]ludeti to the money, fraud and corruption of this system, what a getting ■ under the table there was. You will not leave it to the people to improve the system. Some of the young men want to be solicitors. I hope Joe Brown will go back on you. There is not a white man who w ill un<(ualiftedly indorse ' the system, You will not place restrictions on ; the h s>er,s, appoint wardens, impose penalties . for escapes, divide whit< and colored convicts. I («r anything else. Certain paid gentlemen are i fighting this bill like they did the oil bill. Men with free railroad passes in their pockets aro nut competent to act.” Mr. West—‘□voted against tho bill con scientiously. 1 have the right to my opinion as much as the gentleman from Bibb, and I propose Io exorcise it. lie should confine him self to the bill. Does he impugn the motives of members?” Air. Jones —“Mr. Huff is touching on topics he ought not to touch on.” Mr. Huff '"i am speaking on tho bill. I am responsible for what I say. Aly room is at No. 614, Kimball house. Tho young mon have not investigated the question. There aro . men who cannot distinguish between tlieir • duty to the state and a good dinner.” J Air. Smith of Glynn—”l shall vote for the bill, but I do object to Mr. Hull's reth'eting on the young men of the house by tho talk of the influence of free passes. Tho young men of the house are true and tried.” [Applause.] Mr. Hull—“No one is hurt unless he is guilty.” 3lr. Smith —“T object to the reflections indi rectly on the young men.” Mr. Hull—“1 never do anything indirectly. T am reflecting on the methods of legislation. Why not give directions to Governor Gordon to stop dealing in the farcical?” Mr. Smith -‘"L rise to a point of order. Tho. gentleman has no right to attack the governor in that way and tax him with being farcical.” Mr. Hull’—“l am not attacking the govern or. 1 have confidence in him that ho will do right. Some do not, and some will not un i tlciMand me. If not in tho legislature, I shall be heard outside. Will you lot me introduce a roolution to leave the matter to the people? 1 move to take from the table the motion to reconsider.” Mr. Evans-" “The matter has been passed on already by the house,” Air. Jackson introduced a resolution provid ing for a commit too to report in relation to a suiiablc mark tor tho grave of William Mcln tosh. The resolution, was, under the rules, referred to tho finance committee, Tho William Mcfntovh referred to was a half-breed Indian, who was chief of the Creek nation at the 1 imo that the largo concessions in the way of land were roceivt d from that people. He it was who signed the treaties, and his people were so indignant that they kill* <1 him. His grave is in Carroll county not far from the Chattahoochee river, situated in an old field, neglected and uncarrd lor. r l he object of the Jai kson resolution is to have the grave marked by a plain, simple tablet, whereon the dead chieftain's name and the proper dates shall bo inscribed. The house, passed yesterday an important bill providing for direct taxation for public school purposes. Ji was the finance commit tee's substitute for Mr. Belt’s bill. Mr. Belt's bill was tolcvy’ an additional tax for 18SS of ouo tenth of one per com, which is one mill for school purposes. Tho tax levies arc: For 1887, general pur poses, 2.6 mills; for capitol, .85 of a mill; for sinking fund, .32 of a mill, a total of 3.77 mills. wFor 1888, general purposes, 2.6 mills: for capi tol, .85 of a mill; tor sinking fund, .32 of a mill, a total of 3.57, Mr. Belt’s bill would have made tho (ax levy for 18s8 4 and 57-100 mills. The finance committee thought this too heavy a tax, but as tho members of the commit tee desired to do all that could be prudently done for common school education, they reported a substitute, which levies for 1888 a tax of tvvo-trnlhs of a mill, so that thi,'. tax and the capital tax of 1888 would equal the amount of the capitol tax of 1887, and the total tax for 1888 vruuld be the same as the total tax of 1887. The finance commit lee recognized that this tax (which will only realize about <S60,000) is a less amount than is needed for the common schools, but th< v regard iG passage as impor tant because it n cognizes: First. 'Ul:c principal of direct taxation for common school editc;ition. Second. By referring to the present capitol tax, they Lope that succeeding legislatures will iiicreast the amount after th<- capitol is linisheu, believing that the taxpayers will be> willing to raise each year an amount not less than the amount they have paid in 1887 fur building the capitol. The house of representatives having refused to agree to the senate ainendineiit to the bill to regulate the manner of conduct ing educa tional institutions in this state, to protect the rights of colored and white people, and to pro vide penalties for the infraction of the provis ions of tho Jud, the question what action should the senate take m the matter was raised. Mr. Lumpkin moved that the senate recede from its position as contained in the amend ment to the bill, commonly calk <1 the Glenn bill, ami on the motion to recede, the yeas and Days wore demanded. The senate refused to ree< de by' 19 nays to 13 yea . The vote was as follows: Yeas Brunner, Butt, Dejanu tte,Dilworth, Favor, Foster, Lamkin, l.i v.is, MeKauy, .McCuhtb, Robin?, TurnipsecJ, Wright (1-t,<. V< it- l.i. Nays Atwood, Branlly, Fa.is, Dean. Hamilton, Hand (sth J, Hand (9th i, Big'l'-n, lack.son, .lames, i Livingston, M< l<eod, Northcutt, Pringle, Ritchie, Ru.-k, Smith (Gthg Wufiord, Wilght 6»Btli).—Nays 19. Absent—Courtenay, Daniel, Douglass, Gu'iiy. Hawkes. Peck, Powell, Roberts, biruioans, binith (10th), Smith 11. Mr. Wright (Ist; moved the appointment of a conference committee consisting of three from the senate and live from the house. Mr. Smith moved to table the motion; the yeas and nays w« re again called, and the motion to table was lost, by yeas 16, nays 17. The motion to appoint a committee of conference was taken also, bv yeas ami nays, and the motion pre vailed l»y y eas 17, nays 15. President Davidson announced that tho rules n quired the membert of a committee of conference to bo those who had favored the ! majority position on the matter, and he there fore would appoint on the part of the senate, Messrs. .Jackson, Smith (6th,) and Brantley. < ollege Approprtailons. The senate yesterday did some excellent work. During the morning session, it passed four appropriation bills that will tend in a very gn at measure to increase the usefnlm - and arid to tho comfort ami convenience of tho university of Georgia, ami the branch colleges at Dahlonega, Milbulgcv Die. and Thomasville. The four bills apmopriatingmonr y .aggreg de<t I only 8* 17/KX), divirlcu as follows; Five thons- I ami dollars goes to Athens, to Dah lon<’ga, to Milledgevilif-, and S3,stXi to J homasvißc. In e.u h case, th<-terms of the : bill especially provides for what purpose the money ‘ hall he expended, and sufficient safe guards were thrown about the appropriation to confine it entirely to the objects for whir b it is : desired. The money for A thens imiMt la: used • in repair <<f the university durmitorie.: at Dahlonega, in rcpaii of th<" main < olh build ing ; at Miiledgevilk", in repairing the damage r.,»sed by tho earthquake of Ib-Ji; and at ■ Thoma ville, tn placing in general good repair i the college buildings at Fuat point. Public Th* for Ihlticalion. Mr. HarrelLof Weirder, moved to reron si<i< » the bill to levy a tax lor the support of ( ommon m hools The raivxl would be only < 3'ht or t<*n rents per capita. J» was inane rating system creating rm ui equal di >- hibution of public money. Tho b-'filature , had voted 817.50 per capita to the cohere -, ami an equal amount should bo apnr priab d to ear h child In tLstate. Mr. Bawls—Does tho gentleman mean to In crease the lax. or to kill the bill? Mr. Harr' ll- Jf the gentleman will sit still I ho will hear what I propose to do. lam will ing to vote milllions instead of ten cents per capita. In the munc of my people 1 protest against the passage <.; (bebill. Having placed myself on the r. t ord 1 will withdraw the mo- j tion to reconsider. Here a discussion arose as to the right of re- | newing the noth e, but the spt H er held that Mr. Harrell cduld not withdraw the motion to reconsider. Air. Rawls, in his speech opposing the mo tion to reconsider, said that the approj riation for general school purpose ; presented the fol lowing important figures,showing that tho largo corporations of concentrated wealth would pay' the largest proportion of this tax. and small counties would receive more mom \' than they paid out. This statement was based on the original bill for 1-10 of one per cent, but would apply to the present bill proportionately. Counties. Fays. Receives. Bibb sl-,327 t 4.560 Chatham 23.4 M 8,31'» Fu ( -n :’2,r»Sl 8,970 i Mu c )geo W. 216 -l.iai Ki hmoihl r.',6M 6,6 »C» Total for largo countiess 8,300 ?32,945 Counties. rays. Receives. Applings 937 t 1.151 Biyau .... 4'“> 938 < a.mie i 707 1,211 Bullock 1,’4»7 1.778 Eiling ham si ) 1,080 ei.l‘s $6,188 Mr. Candler—The gentleman from Webster ba oppMM’d all appropriations t<» tlm State uni versity and ih'lcaicd the bill to levy a tax of one-tenth of <nn- percent for school purposes. 1 move to table the motion to reconsider,which prevailed. Mr. Huff offered an additional section prohibiting convict lessees from confining white and colored convicts together in the night, and to forfeit the lease upon a viola tion. This amendment was adopted. Mr. Huff then ottered another amendment providing that tho act should not go into effect until submitted to a vote of the people at an* election to be held sixty days aft< r the passage of the act, and that the ballots should have printed thereon, cither “ratified'' or “rejec tion,” “for the present system,” or “against tho present system.” Mr. Deuny moved to atm nd the amendment by striking out " at an election to be held sixty' <lays after the passage of this m t.” and insert “at the next general election,” which was ac cepted by Mr. Hull. Mr. Birchmore "11 is provided that tho ballots shall be printed on both sides. Why!” Mr. 11ulT- •“<’an I explain ’ Air. Harrison —"I insist that under the rules (hero can be no argument.” Mr. W(‘st--“The motmn to rise and indefi nitely postpone the bill lakes precedence over amendments.” Mr. Terrell “A motion to indefinitely' post pone cannot be entertained in < ommittee of the whole.” Nir. Harrison, of (.fiotn m. moved that the committee rise ami report the bill ami amend ments back, with the recommendation that they “do not pass.” Mr. Clay, the chairman, held that tiie mo tion made by the gentleman from Quitman wa a principal motion that would di: pose of the bill. The motion to amend is to perfect, tho bill, and therefore incithnlal ami timt in drier. Nir. Torrell movr<i a a substitute that tho committee recommend tli;if it do pass. This was lost, by yeas st», nay s 61. Mr. Harrison’s motion prevailed by yeas 67, nay .37. Mr. I lent y offered au amendment to section 27 by striking out “a felony” and "in the peni t< nt’.'ry from one to five u is" and insert ing “a misuCmoanor” and “punish<‘<| underseetion 4310 of Hie code.” 't he amendment was lost by yeas 30, nays 60. Sale of Komi Surplus I’roperly. Mr. AVatts introduced in the house, yester day. a series of resolutions relative to tiie sale of tho surplus real estate belonging io the State road, and not necessary to its business, and tho applicatimi ol tb«‘ proceeds to the pay inent of the bonded debt of the state. 11. D. McDaniel of Walton, A. <>. B;won of Bibb, ami C. D. McCutcheon ol Whitfield, are crea ted a commission to investigate, layout ami sell the property, al publu* sale, ne mtiate with parties as to tho property. The compensation of tho commission shall bo .$1,600 pm- annum, and serve for three years from .fitly first. 1888. Tho engineer appointed by them* tu plat oil tho hind, gets .^loOper mouth. AFTERNO(»X SF.SSION. The house rc-as «mbled at p.|ni. On one bill the vote s tood 87 yeas. The speaker exer cised his privilege, and voted yea, and the bill passed. Ju order Io s-eurc the p i sage of a nil! to charier Blue Ridge. Mr. \\ <-.d bail the clerk to read the following Item from the Min eral Bluff Gazette: “Blue Ridge is a plucky little tow’n, ami we often hear tho ejaculation from certain points, ‘Stand, .lohanali, condemn you, or i’ll cut your heart out.’” I’hc bill passed. Victory at l.a-l. (‘(•nsnmption, the greatest < ur-e of the ago. the destroyer of thousands ol <>ur brightest ami b« St. is conqih red. It i no l<m;/t J ih<"Urabl<‘. Dr l’ieit» \ " Gohlen Medical Discovery” is a certain remedy for this terrible disease ii take ii in time. All scrohdmis diseases—consump tion is a scrofulous allcution of the lungs—can be curc<l by it. iGeTt'cct . in di. cases of the throat and lung.sare little h s than mine uluus. Ail diut - Have it. Years ago, W. A, IL iron, of Peoria, 111., re fused to keep Shallenberger’;, Antidote for Malaria, on commission, be* aitao bis shelves were crowded already with ague remedies. j\ dozen hot ths were hfi with him, which he agreed to give away. No other advm lising was done. In less than six months he holdover nine hundred dollars’ worth, ('mild there be any stronger testimony in favor of a medicine? A .JeMter Who Deserve* Hanging. From the New York ('mnmerclal Advertiser. The practical joker is again to the front. A man at Prague, Boh* min, swallowed a mnll watch, with chain attache I, which one of these fools had alipped into a gla s of beer while the man s back wa turned. The metal, dissolved by the a< i<i- oflhc Htomach, has poisoned that organ and keeps it in a i incessant state of fever, rendering the victim un able to retain fmxl. The man has i n <lj-inisMe<l from the Munich hospital as iiicurablc, and now liew in u hospital al P.nguc, kept alive by food art! lie ally iuic< ted, waiting to M-e wbelle i the watch will dissolve, m" whether he will die h I. l Ro.v the joker mu-i be enjoy h 8 1 b ’ ANGOSTURA BITTERS, Hu- world re nowned uppetiser and invigorator. I sod now over the whole chilizcd world. 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